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In [[O. Henry]]'s 1911 story "The Door of Unrest", a drunk shoemaker Mike O'Bader comes to a local newspaper editor and claims to be the Jerusalem shoemaker Michob Ader who did not let Christ rest upon his doorstep on the way to crucifixion and was condemned to live until the Second Coming. However, Mike O'Bader insists he is a [[Gentile]], not a Jew.

"The Wandering Jew" is the title of a short poem by [[Edwin Arlington Robinson]] which appears in his 1920 book ''The Three Taverns''.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/threetavernsbook00robiuoft|title=The three taverns; a book of poems|first=Edwin Arlington|last=Robinson|date=1 January 1920|publisher=New York Macmillan Co|via=Internet Archive}}</ref> In the poem, the speaker encounters a mysterious figure with eyes that "remembered everything". He recognizes him from "his image when I was a child" and finds him to be bitter, with "a ringing wealth of old anathemas"; a man for whom the "world around him was a gift of anguish". The speaker does not know what became of him, but believes that "somewhere among men to-day / Those old, unyielding eyes may flash / And flinch—and look the other way."

[[George Sylvester Viereck]] and [[Paul Eldridge]] wrote a trilogy of novels ''My First Two Thousand Years: an Autobiography of the Wandering Jew'' (1928), in which Isaac Laquedem is a Roman soldier who, after being told by Jesus that he will "tarry until I return", goes on to influence many of the great events of history. He frequently encounters Solome (described as "The Wandering Jewess"), and travels with a companion, to whom he has passed on his immortality via a blood transfusion (another attempt to do this for a woman he loved ended in her death).

"Ahasver", a cult leader identified with the Wandering Jew, is a central figure in [[Anthony Boucher]]'s classic mystery novel ''Nine Times Nine'' (originally published 1940 under the name H. Holmes).

Written by Isaac Asimov in October 1956, the short story "[[Does a Bee Care?]]" features a highly influential character named Kane who is stated to have spawned the legends of the Walking Jew and the Flying Dutchman in his thousands of years maturing on Earth, guiding humanity toward the creation of technology which would allow it to return to its far-distant home in another solar system. The story originally appeared in the June 1957 edition of [[If (magazine)|''If: Worlds of Science Fiction'']] magazine and is collected in the anthology ''Buy Jupiter and Other Stories'' (Isaac Asimov, Doubleday Science Fiction, 1975).

A Jewish Wanderer appears in ''[[A Canticle for Leibowitz]]'', a [[post-apocalyptic]] [[science fiction]] novel by [[Walter M. Miller, Jr.]] first published in 1960; some children are heard saying of the old man, "What Jesus raises up STAYS raised up", and introduces himself in Hebrew as Lazarus, implying that he is [[Lazarus of Bethany]], whom Christ raised from the dead. Another possibility hinted at in the novel is that this character is also Isaac Edward Leibowitz, founder of the (fictional) Albertian Order of St. Leibowitz (and who was martyred for trying to preserve books from burning by a savage mob). The character speaks and writes in Hebrew and English, and wanders around the desert, though he has a tent on a [[mesa]] overlooking the abbey founded by Leibowitz, which is the setting for almost all the novel's action. The character appears again in three subsequent novellas which take place hundreds of years apart, and in Miller's 1997 follow-up novel, ''[[Saint Leibowitz and the Wild Horse Woman]]''.

Ahasuerus must remain on Earth after space travel is developed in [[Lester del Rey]]'s "Earthbound" (1963).<ref name="delrey196308">{{Cite magazine |last=del Rey |first=Lester |date=August 1963 |title=Earthbound |url=https://archive.org/stream/Galaxy_v21n06_1963-08#page/n22/mode/1up |magazine=Galaxy Science Fiction |pages=44–45}}</ref> The Wandering Jew also appears in [[Mary Elizabeth Counselman]]'s story "A Handful of Silver" (1967).<ref>Mary Elizabeth Counselman, William Kimber (1980). "A Handful of Silver". In ''Half In Shadow'', pp. 205–212.</ref> [[Barry Sadler]] has written a series of books featuring a character called [[Casca (series)|Casca Rufio Longinus]] who is a combination of two characters from Christian folklore, [[Saint Longinus]] and the Wandering Jew. [[Jack L. Chalker]] wrote a five-book series called ''The [[Well World]] Saga'' in which it is mentioned many times that the creator of the universe, a man named Nathan Brazil, is known as the Wandering Jew. The 10th issue of [[DC Comics]]' ''[[Secret Origins]]'' (January 1987) gave [[Phantom Stranger|The Phantom Stranger]] four possible origins. In one of these explanations, the Stranger confirms to a priest that he is the Wandering Jew.<ref>{{Cite comic |Writer=[[Mike W. Barr|Barr, Mike W.]] |Penciller=[[Jim Aparo|Aparo, Jim]] |Inker=[[Tom Ziuko|Ziuko, Tom]] |Story=The Phantom Stranger |Title=Secret Origins |Volume=2 |Issue=10 |Date=January 1987 |Publisher=[[DC Comics]] |Page=2–10 }}</ref> [[Angela Hunt]]'s novel ''The Immortal'' (2000) features the Wandering Jew under the name of Asher Genzano.

Although he does not appear in [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s novel ''[[Time Enough for Love]]'' (1973), the central character, [[Lazarus Long]], claims to have encountered the Wandering Jew at least once, possibly multiple times, over the course of his long life. According to Lazarus, he was then using the name Sandy Macdougal and was operating as a [[confidence trick|con man]]. He is described as having red hair and being, in Lazarus' words, a "crashing bore".

The Wandering Jew is revealed to be [[Judas Iscariot]] in [[George R. R. Martin]]'s distant-future science fiction parable of [[Christianity]], the 1979 short story "[[The Way of Cross and Dragon]]".

In the first two novels of science fiction author [[Dan Simmons]]' ''[[Hyperion Cantos]]'' (1989-1997), a central character is referred to as the Wandering Jew as he roams the galaxy in search of a cure for his daughter's illness. In his later novel ''[[Ilium (novel)|Ilium]]'' (2003), a woman who is addressed as the Wandering Jew also plays a pivotal role, acting as witness and last remaining Jew during a period where all other Jewish people have been locked away.

The Wandering Jew encounters a returned Christ in [[Deborah Grabien]]'s 1990 novel ''Plainsong''.<ref>Chris Gilmore, "Grabien, Deborah" in ''St. James Guide To Fantasy Writers'', edited by David Pringle. St. James Press, 1996. {{ISBN|1-55862-205-5}}. pp. 238–39.</ref>